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Why do you think there are no office politics for remote positions? Conversely, why do you think that on site must have more politics? Maybe I’m an outlier, bu
by matt_the_bass 8y ago
Why do you think there are no office politics for remote positions? Conversely, why do you think that on site must have more politics?
Maybe I’m an outlier, but at the company I built there is VERY little office politics. Most of us work onsite most of the time, but most of us also work remote sometimes. Some of my colleagues are about 50/50 in the office. We try to coordinate similar remote schedules to maximize in person communication when people are in the office.
We seem to be doing well with most engineers staying at least 5 years and many staying over 15.
- amingilani 8y agoI definitely feel that remote work reduces politics and I'm valued in terms of my performance than anything else. Your organization may have less politics than most, and I commend you but it's easier for politics to creep in on-site. But when your performance is tracked empirically for everyone in the organization to see, everyone knows how much you're worth.
- PenguinCoder 8y agoOh I'm not meaning to say there are no office politics for remote positions, or for any office role. Just that as a remote employee, I deal LESS with that than on if I were on site. Constantly being a party to those things versus when "someone" specifically chooses to involve me, the remote employee. Being remote, I don't -have- to participate in those politics as a course of just doing my job daily. Whereas when I Was on-site, I seemed to have been pulled into it regardless.